{"id":87808,"date":"2016-06-17T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T00:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=87808&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-07-25T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T01:58:11","slug":"tobata-gion-oyamagasa-2016","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/tobata-gion-oyamagasa-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobata Gion Oyamagasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four huge floats, each 10 m tall, 2.5 t and with 12 traditional flags, are carried through the town during the day. At night, the decorations change to create a \u201cPyramid of Light\u201d, 309 lanterns in 12 tiers. These are paraded to shouts of \u201c<em>Yoitosa! Yoitosa!<\/em>\u201d A National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/05-tobata-gion-oyamagasa.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"05 - tobata gion oyamagasa\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/05-tobata-gion-oyamagasa.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/05-tobata-gion-oyamagasa.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 7\/22 (Fri.) ~ 7\/24 (Sun.) *Main demonstration on 7\/23, 18:30~21:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Free<br \/>\n\u2022 Tobata-ku area \/ Demonstration (7\/23): in front of Tobata Ward Office<br \/>\n\u2022 Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka<br \/>\n\u2022 093-871-1501<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/tobatagion.jp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tobatagion.jp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Originally published in Fukuoka Now Magazine (<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/fukuokanow\/docs\/fn-211-web\" target=\"_blank\">fn211<\/a>, Jul. 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four huge floats, each 10 m tall, 2.5 t and with 12 traditional flags, are carried through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26469,"featured_media":87784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-87808","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/87808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}